Re: [ranchos] Menudo and nopales?

[Joseph Puentes <makas@...>]

Wow cool, I can just taste the Menudo and the history you related makes 
me really think. Now your Great Grandmother had to learn her culinary 
skills from someone. . .maybe her mom? Reasonable assumption wouldn't 
you say. I'd just love to learn why some recipes came about. . .meaning 
the social forces at work at different time periods. Maybe at certain 
times there was an abundance of hominy but no pigs and some of the 
different recipes started to develope. I wish we could find history 
books that might trace the food from the specific areas of "our" 
research. Also I'd love to read more about the diseases that plagues our 
areas. . .I remember looking over the death records for Santa Maria de 
Los Angeles and found a group of over 100 people in a row that died of 
Cholera in the 1830's. I could only imagine the horror of living there 
at that time with disease all around you. I also read about some of the 
horrific earth quakes that destroyed many of the iglesias in the late 
1700's. Surely times of terrible agony and sorrow over loss of life for 
our families of yesteryear. Genealogy is more than just names. . 
.genealogy is the history that is associated with those names and the 
things that our families went through and sacrificed to give us our 
heritage. Tengo Amor de mi Sangre!
joseph

ps: so who is going to invite me over for some menudo?

sgapodaca wrote:

> Hello to everyone. What's going on with all this talk about menudo 
> and nopales? I thought this was a genealogy group, not a cooking 
> book................................I'm just kidding.
> By the way, in Jalisco we also cook white menudo, not only the red 
> one. The last messages brought my attention because menudo as well as 
> pozole is closely related to my family history.
> You see, my mom Margarita Tapia lives in Jalisco, Zacoalco de Torres, 
> and she owns a restaurant where one of her specialties is menudo. 
> Fonda Dona Mago, if you ever go to Zacoalco.
> A generation back, her mom, my grandma Manuela Martinez, was also 
> known because of the delicious menudo she made. Even today, some old 
> folks refer to my mom's menudo as "el menudo de Manuela", even though 
> she has been retired for more than a decade.
> And this doesn't stop with my grandma, because her mother, my great-
> grandmother Ambrosia Frias Aguilar, was also famous for her 
> restaurant and especially for her pozole. A couple years ago, my 
> mother saw an old photograph from Zacoalco's old mercado. This 
> photograph belonged to someone else outside our family, but my mother 
> bought it from this person because in it there's a sign that 
> reads "Cenaduria Bochita". That was the name of my greatgrandmother's 
> restaurant, and up until then, my family did not have any picture of 
> it.
> Well, it is just a comment.
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> About the poll, I think it shoud stay the same. I submitted my family 
> tree a while back in pdf format, but I have found new ancestors, so 
> I'll put an updated version of this file soon. I don't know if you 
> agree, but I think pdf is a cool format if you want to show your tree 
> to other people. It lists your direct ancestors, the surnames, the 
> places of origin, and you can move around it with the little hand 
> tool. What do you think of this format?
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